Re: Removing non-committed files?

Karl Fogel <kfogel@newton.ch.collab.net> writes:

> But when removing an added file, you'd get a different error
>
> % svn rm my-file
> svn_error: #21XXX : <blah blah blah>
> `my-file' is scheduled for addition; to remove it, use
> `svn revert' to unschedule
>
> svn_error: #21XXX : <blah blah blah>
> 'my-file' is scheduled for addition
>
> That way Subversion say what it really means.
>
> Thoughts?

It's not clear that that 'svn revert' is the "correct" thing to
suggest. Running 'svn revert' will cancel the scheduling for addition
but will not remove the unversioned item. As far as I can see
deleting the item by using '--force' is just as likely to be what the
user wanted.

-- 
Philip
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